Disheartened

[SMEngmann]

My idea of effective "1 man" is to hustle. Change sides of the court, move aggressively for angles, etc, it will get you a lot more points than the guy who goes 28 ft line to 28 ft line on the same side of the court. Second thing is that you don't need more whistles, you just need to get the obvious stuff. You can't be expected to get off ball stuff, but you sure as heck can be expected to get the stuff that the guy in the nosebleeds sees. If there's something that looks really bad but you aren't sure because of your angle, get that too depending on your game. Call the obvious, OOB the players will referee themselves 90% of the time on obvious OOB plays, and for the other 10% if you have no clue, check the arrow, most of the time nobody will have a problem because the call could've gone either way anyhow.

[stmaryrams]

Originally Posted by SMEngmann

My idea of effective "1 man" is to hustle. Change sides of the court, move aggressively for angles, etc, it will get you a lot more points than the guy who goes 28 ft line to 28 ft line on the same side of the court. Second thing is that you don't need more whistles, you just need to get the obvious stuff. You can't be expected to get off ball stuff, but you sure as heck can be expected to get the stuff that the guy in the nosebleeds sees. If there's something that looks really bad but you aren't sure because of your angle, get that too depending on your game. Call the obvious, OOB the players will referee themselves 90% of the time on obvious OOB plays, and for the other 10% if you have no clue, check the arrow, most of the time nobody will have a problem because the call could've gone either way anyhow.

I agree with most of what you have. I've ended up starting some games in JV as a single official and went C to C across from table as much as possible. I too told both benches that they needed to keep it in check as there would be things I would not see but I had no tolerance for stuff I did see.

Bottom line - two bad teams, bonus in first period as neither team could play defense without grabbing and clutching. Part way through the period I hear another whistle, one of the crew to do the varsity game had arrived early and came out to help. Game was still a train wreck of fouls. I even had one girl basically bear hug another girl at one point because she had no clue what she was doing.